IMO Practice Test — Reproductive Health
7 Questions • 15 min • Olympiad level
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Question 1 of 7
Condoms are recommended over the pill for a person worried about STIs because condoms also:
Act as a barrier to infection
Stop ovulation
Cure AIDS
Increase fertility
Explanation: Only barrier methods like condoms physically block pathogens as well as sperm.
Question 2 of 7
Educating and empowering women is an effective way to slow population growth largely because it:
Tends to lead to later marriage and smaller families
Stops all births
Increases the birth rate
Has no effect
Explanation: Female education is linked with later marriage, family planning and smaller family size.
Question 3 of 7
Prevention is stressed for AIDS more than for some other STIs mainly because AIDS:
Has no complete cure
Is easily cured
Is not serious
Spreads by handshakes
Explanation: Since AIDS cannot be fully cured, preventing infection is the most reliable protection.
Question 4 of 7
A couple who cannot conceive because the woman's fallopian tubes are blocked could be helped by:
IVF, which bypasses the tubes by fertilising outside the body
A vasectomy
An MTP
The rhythm method
Explanation: IVF fertilises the egg outside the body, so blocked tubes no longer prevent conception.
Question 5 of 7
The PCPNDT law banning foetal sex determination aims to correct the harmful practice of:
Sex-selective abortion of female foetuses
Vaccination
Breastfeeding
Adoption
Explanation: The ban targets female foeticide, helping balance the sex ratio.
Question 6 of 7
Adoption is described as a caring option for childless couples because it:
Gives a home to a child while fulfilling the couple's wish to be parents
Is a contraceptive
Causes infertility
Spreads STIs
Explanation: Adoption meets the couple's desire for a child and provides a loving home to a child who needs one.
Question 7 of 7
Amniocentesis is medically valuable for detecting foetal disorders, but its misuse for sex determination is banned because it leads to:
Female foeticide and a skewed sex ratio
Better health
More twins
Higher fertility
Explanation: Using the test to abort female foetuses causes female foeticide, which the law prohibits.